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22 Cards in this Set
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Socialization
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the life long social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
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Personality
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a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
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id
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Freud's term for the human being's basic drives
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ego
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Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
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superego
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Frued's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual
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Sensorimotor stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses
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Preoperational stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first use language and other symbols
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Concrete operational stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first see casual connections in their surroundings
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Formal operational stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically
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Self
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George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
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looking-glass self
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Charles Horton Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us
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Significant others
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people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization
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Generalized other
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Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves
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Peer group
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a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common
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Anticipatory socialization
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learning that helps a person achieve a desired position
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Mass Media
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the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience
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Gerontology
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the study of aging and the elderly
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Gerontocracy
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a form of social organization in which the elderly have the most wealth, power, and prestige
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Ageism
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prejudice and discrimination against older people
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Cohort
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a category of people with something in common, usually their age
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Total institution
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a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and controlled by an administrative staff
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Resocialization
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radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment
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